Download or read book Effective Schools in Developing Countries RLE Edu A written by Henry Levin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together eight case studies which describe a variety of initiatives to create more effective schools for children of poverty, especially in the Third World. The initiatives reviewed published and unpublished documents and both qualitative and statistical studies were examined. Countries include Brazil, Burundi, Colombia, Ghana, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand and the United States. Each initiative was developed independently to address unique challenges and situations but taken as a group, the features of the approaches described in this volume can be viewed as a basis for considering the development of effective schools strategies in other contexts.
Download or read book Effective Schools in Developing Countries written by Henry M. Levin and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Effective Schools in Developing Countries written by World Bank. Education and Employment Division and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book School Management and Effectiveness in Developing Countries written by Clive Harber and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2006-02-08 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is quite different from existing 'Western' books on school effectiveness. It describes and analyses the way in which schools operate in developing countries and also tries to explain why they are as they are. Examining them at three levels - the macro, the meso and the micro - the authors use a theoretical framework that they have termed 'post-bureaucracy.' The book has four interlinked sections. First the authors examine the existing economic and theoretical contexts around school effectiveness, including an analysis of the causes of economic crisis and its impact on school management. In the second section the analysis of schools as bureaucratic facades is proposed. The reality of school life, from which any theory of school effectiveness must derive, is illustrated by an ethnographic account of the job of the headteacher in developing countries. The third section explores different ways to understand this reality, operating on three levels: global relationships, national and community cultures, and individual agency. In the final section Haber and Davies draw these levels and realities together. They argue for the democratization of schools as the only way forward for effective education fordevelopment.
Download or read book Effective Schools in Developing Countries written by Henry M. Levin (ed) and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book School Effectiveness in Developing Countries written by David Pennycuick and published by . This book was released on 1994* with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Public and Private Secondary Education in Developing Countries written by Emmanuel Jimenez and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World Bank Discussion Paper No. 311. Examines the effects of the Uruguay Round on the countries of Sub-Saharan Africa. The findings show that the effects will be minimal overall and may be beneficial to countries which make the necessary domestic reforms for participation in the world market.
Download or read book The Relative Efficiency of Public Schools in Developing Countries written by and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Improving Primary Education in Developing Countries written by Marlaine E. Lockheed and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1991 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study presents policy options for improving the effectiveness of primary schools in developing countries. It examines problems common to most developing countries and presents an array of low-cost policy alternatives that have proved useful in a variety of settings.
Download or read book A Multilevel Model of School Effectiveness in a Developing Country written by Marlaine E. Lockheed and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1989 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The comparative effectiveness of schools in developing countries has become the center of a lively debate. Of particular concern is the appropriate analytic method to employ when examing school effects. This paper uses a multi-level approach to examine determinants of growth in grade 8 mathematics achievement in Thailand. Results of the analysis showed that schools in Thailand were equally effective in transforming pretest scores into posttest scores, and that schools and classrooms contributed 32 percent of the variance in posttest scores. Higher levels of achievement were associated with a higher proportion of teachers qualified to teach mathematics, an enriched curriculum and frequent use of textbooks by teachers. Individual characteristics, however, contributed 68 percent of the variance, with achievement higher for boys, younger students, and children with higher educational aspirations. The model developed in the paper was able to explain most of the between school variance, but significantly less of the within school variance. The implication of these results is that schools in Thailand are much more uniform in their effects than previous research in developing countries would have suggested.
Download or read book Teacher Education in Plural Societies RLE Edu N written by Maurice Craft and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2012-04-27 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The educational implications of cultural pluralism attracted a good deal of attention in Western societies in the 1970s and 1980s, on the grounds of equality and human rights, maximising national talent, and maintaining social cohesion. Maurice Craft and the international contributors to this book highlight the potential of teacher education, and in this wide-ranging analytical review for its key role in providing for ethnic minority children, in respect of access and achievements, and also for all children to acquire informed and tolerant attitudes. This book makes an important contribution to a small but growing literature, concentrating on initial rather than in-service teacher education, and it brings together papers from experienced specialists from eleven countries worldwide: Australia, Britain, Canada, Israel, Malaysia, Northern Ireland, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, The Netherlands and the USA. The papers are concerned with the needs both of diverse classrooms and diverse societies, and also consider general principles and comparative perspectives. Of interest to the specialist and non-specialist alike, Teacher Education in Plural Societies: An International Review deals with an important and timely issue – how best to prepare teachers to meet the needs of both minority – and majority – culture pupils who are growing up in plural societies.
Download or read book Research on Effective Schools written by Elchanan Cohn and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper provides a review of research on effective schools for both developed and less-developed countries, discusses some methodological questions, and then offers a few guidelines for educational policy in less-developed countries. Perhaps the most important conclusion derived from the synthesis of the literature is that, although additional funds for education appear to be a necessary condition for educational improvement, merely spending more money is not a sufficient condition for improvement. How the funds are used is of critical importance. This survey concentrates on the "how" questions, providing a general discussion of areas where educational improvements are likely to be realized.
Download or read book Multinational Joint Ventures in Developing Countries RLE International Business written by Paul Beamish and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-04 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how joint ventures work in practice. Drawing on extensive personal experience and using case study examples where appropriate the author analyses the various stages, discusses the problems of partner selection, implementation and control and points out the various benefits and pitfalls. He draws out the implications for improving practice and discusses how the experience of joint ventures affects the theory of the multinational enterprise.
Download or read book Marketing in Developing Countries RLE Marketing written by G. S. Kindra and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-25 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The articles in this collection discuss the role of marketing in development, and include case studies from various developing countries. They consider state enterprises, marketing education, birth control and comparative marketing models.
Download or read book School Resources and Performance in Developing Countries written by Moberly and published by Mk Publishers Limited. This book was released on 2011-11 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "School Resources and Performance in Developing Countries: A Resource-Based Perspective" This book highlights the highly contested ongoing research debate about the relationship between educational resources and school performance. Grounded in the strategic Resource-Based Perspective, this book presents current research with new insights on how to understand educational resources and school performance in developing countries given the diverse sociocultural and economic contexts. The Resource-Based Perspective suggest that specific educational resources and capabilities can lead to superior performance in business organizations such as schools. We demonstrate how Resourse-Based Perspective can be used as lens to inform educational theory and practice regarding making choices and decisions about resource provisions in underesourced settings. This volume advances the notion of resource sharing and use of satellite schools and its potential to allow schools especially in developing countries, to more efficiently and effectively use their current meager resources to optimize the benefits accruing to students and school performance.
Download or read book Dependence and Interdependence in Education RLE Edu A written by Keith Watson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides an international perspective on educational dependency in considering both theories and actual developments throughout the world. Some less developed countries, in expanding their education systems, have emulated Western academic-style systems and have increased their dependence on Western models in various respects including examination validation. Others have deliberately avoided this path and have experimented with systems more ‘relevant’ to development, often in a radical way. At a theoretical level, Marxist and neo-Marxist development theorists argue that education systems dependent on the West are evidence of economic dependency and confirmation of Marxist development theories; while others argue that the evidence suggests an interdependent world and that dependency theories do not apply in education.
Download or read book Towards Successful Schooling RLE Edu L Sociology of Education written by Hugh Lauder and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-05-23 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The editors have compiled this critical and comparative study of changes which took place in the New Zealand education system in the second half of the twentieth century. For other Western societies who have felt the impact of New Right policies the New Zealand case is interesting because it provides some indication of how policies of decentralization in education might be used to develop egalitarian and democratic educational policies. In recent years there have been major changes to educational systems in the Western world. Often these changes have been justified by reference to successful educational practices in other countries. However, it is not always possible simply to abstract educational practices from one context and apply them in another successfully. Moreover claims that policies in one country are more successful than those in another have to be treated cautiously: there are always problems in making valid comparisons between the educational performances of different countries. It is important, therefore, that critical and comparative studies are made of educational systems which take full account of the contexts in which they are embedded.
